"Plants - Trees" found 18 records

Scope and Content: Photograph of Louis Claude Hill standing by a ladder placed in a ditch. The ladder is leaning against a giant tree upturned by the roots. The ditch appears to be created from uprooting the tree. There is a pile of firewood visible to the right, and a barn to the left in the distance.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1900

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 10.5 x 15 cm on page 21.5 x 28 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-836

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of Louis Claude Hill standing by a ladder placed in a ditch. The ladder is leaning against a giant tree upturned by the roots. The ditch appears to be created from uprooting the tree. There is a pile of firewood visible to the right, and a barn to the left in the distance.

Subjects: Land Clearing; Plants - Trees

Names: Hill, Louis Claude "Claude"

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

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Claude Hill beside a large felled tree, 1900 thumbnail

Cleared land

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-](date of original), copied 1978

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the cleared land which appears to be the Sprott family property. There are stumps and felled trees on the lot. Across a small dirt road and behind a wooden fence, the Haszard house is visible to the extreme right of the photograph.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of the cleared land which appears to be the Sprott family property. There are stumps and felled trees on the lot. Across a small dirt road and behind a wooden fence, the Haszard house is visible to the extreme right of the photograph.

Subjects: Land Clearing; Plants - Trees

Geographic Access: Canada Way

Accession Code: HV978.1.16

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-](date of original), copied 1978

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-08-01

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Cleared land, [190-](date of original), copied 1978 thumbnail

Edward W. Nicholson and Team of Horses Inside Tree Stump

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 16.5 cm on 17.8 x 22.5 cm backing

Scope and Content: Photograph of Edward Nicholson standing with a team of horses inside the hollowed stump of a tree. Five other men and a dog are seated on planks on top of the stump and another man and two women are sitting to the left on the exposed roots of the tree. The man on seated to the right is identified …

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1909

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Margaret McCallum subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 11 x 16.5 cm on 17.8 x 22.5 cm backing

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 375-028

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-42

Scope and Content: Photograph of Edward Nicholson standing with a team of horses inside the hollowed stump of a tree. Five other men and a dog are seated on planks on top of the stump and another man and two women are sitting to the left on the exposed roots of the tree. The man on seated to the right is identified as Duncan MacInnes.

Subjects: Transportation - Horses; Plants - Trees

Names: MacInnes, Duncan; Nicholson, E.W.

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on caption; A note on the back of the photograph reads: "E.W. Nicholson first resident of Broadview District of Burnaby - 1900 May 23rd. Picture taken 1909. Edward W. Nicholson, with team of horses inside stump (Cedar). Stump 36 feet in diameter. Duncan MacInnes sitting extreme right. Horses were turned around inside stump."

Geographic Access: Boundary Road

Street Address: 2550 Boundary Road

Historic Neighbourhood: Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: West Central Valley Area

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Edward W. Nicholson and Team of Horses Inside Tree Stump, 1909 thumbnail

From Brookfield

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5 x 7.5 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Scope and Content: Photograph taken looking north from the home of Claude Hill. This house, known as Brookfield, was in the Burnaby Lake area and was home to the Hill family until about 1906. The property is the current site of the Burnaby Village Museum. To the right can be seen a road which is most likely Douglas R…

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1904]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 5 x 7.5 cm on page 11.5 x 14 cm (pasted in album)

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-164

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph taken looking north from the home of Claude Hill. This house, known as Brookfield, was in the Burnaby Lake area and was home to the Hill family until about 1906. The property is the current site of the Burnaby Village Museum. To the right can be seen a road which is most likely Douglas Road (later Canada Way).

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Douglas Road; Deer Lake Avenue

Street Address: 6501 Deer Lake Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

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Johnson family at Stanley Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1909]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : albumen ; 11.5 x 17 cm, mounted on board 19.5 x 24.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Johnson family in a horse and carriage at the hollow tree in Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1909]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Andrew Johnson subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : albumen ; 11.5 x 17 cm, mounted on board 19.5 x 24.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 335-006

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1997-16

Scope and Content: Photograph of the Johnson family in a horse and carriage at the hollow tree in Stanley Park in Vancouver, BC.

Subjects: Plants - Trees; Transportation - Horses; Transportation - Carriages

Names: Johnson, Andrew Martin "Andy"; Johnson, Andrew Sloane; Johnson, Margaret Sloane

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Stanley Park Photographers

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographer's stamp on verso of mount reads: "FROM/ The Stanley Park Photographers./ HEAD OFFICE. 61 Cordova Street,/ Vancouver, B.C./ When ordering duplicates of this photo, mention negative No. 6623"; 1 b&w copy negative accompanying

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Johnson family at Stanley Park, [1909] thumbnail

Leaf-covered walkway

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [between 1890 and 1909]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 5 cm, mounted on card 12.5 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a leaf-covered walkway lined with trees near Burnaby Lake.

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia ; 7.5 x 5 cm, mounted on card 12.5 x 10 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a leaf-covered walkway lined with trees near Burnaby Lake.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Geographic Access: Burnaby Lake

Accession Code: BV003.61.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Date: [between 1890 and 1909]

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Burnaby Lake Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 09-Jun-09

Scale: 100

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Note in pencil on verso of photograph reads: "Near Burnaby Lake/ Burnaby, B.C."

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Leaf-covered walkway, [between 1890 and 1909] thumbnail

Linden Avenue

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.5 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of trees and stumps on Linden Avenue, Edmonds District. The caption at the bottom right of the photograph reads, "Linden Ave. / Edmonds 1908."

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1908 (date of original), copied 1986

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Patterson family subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.8 x 12.5 cm print

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 171-021

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1986-20

Scope and Content: Photograph of trees and stumps on Linden Avenue, Edmonds District. The caption at the bottom right of the photograph reads, "Linden Ave. / Edmonds 1908."

Subjects: Land Clearing; Geographic Features - Roads; Plants - Trees

Media Type: Photograph

Geographic Access: Linden Avenue

Historic Neighbourhood: Edmonds (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Richmond Park Area

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Linden Avenue, 1908 (date of original), copied 1986 thumbnail

MacKenzie family and friends

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [1907 or 1908]

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.1 x 10.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six adults and three children, identified as the MacKenzie family and friends. They are standing in the bushes in the woods. A note in the accession file identifies some of the people in the photograph. Back row of three men (l to r): Charles Hutton visiting from Moosejaw wearing a b…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.1 x 10.3 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of six adults and three children, identified as the MacKenzie family and friends. They are standing in the bushes in the woods. A note in the accession file identifies some of the people in the photograph. Back row of three men (l to r): Charles Hutton visiting from Moosejaw wearing a bowler hat on the back of his head, and two unidentified men. Middle row (l to r): Miss Evelyn Hutton from Moosejaw, the sister of Charles Hutton, Mrs. Eunice MacKenzie (the donor's mother), and Mr. Alexander MacKenzie (the donor's father) holding a baby (Art MacKenzie). Front row of two children (l to r): Donald B. MacKenzie and Jean MacKenzie Davidson, son and daugher of Eunice and Alexander MacKenzie.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Names: Davidson, Jean MacKenzie; Hutton, Charles; Hutton, Evelyn; MacKenzie, Alexander; MacKenzie, Art; MacKenzie, Donald B.; MacKenzie, Eunice

Accession Code: BV985.24.2

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [1907 or 1908]

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-12-19

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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MacKenzie family and friends, [1907 or 1908] thumbnail

Maude Hill standing by a tree

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a woman standing by a giant tree or tree stump. The woman is wearing a blouse and long skirt, with a blazer on the top, and a fur shawl over her shoulders. She is also wearing a large brimmed hat. She is identified as Mrs. Maude Hill, the first wife of Claude Hill (son of Bernard Hill…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a woman standing by a giant tree or tree stump. The woman is wearing a blouse and long skirt, with a blazer on the top, and a fur shawl over her shoulders. She is also wearing a large brimmed hat. She is identified as Mrs. Maude Hill, the first wife of Claude Hill (son of Bernard Hill).

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Names: Hill, Alice Maude Huggett "Maude"

Accession Code: HV977.123.24

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Media Type: Photograph

Related Material: For another photograph of the same woman, see HV977.123.10 to .12

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-07-25

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Maude Hill standing by a tree, [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977 thumbnail

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sprott

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-](date of original), copied 1978

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a young couple sitting on a felled tree on land that is being cleared. There are upturned trees, stumps, etc. The woman is wearing a coat with leg-o-mutton sleeves and a flat brimmed hat, and the man is in three piece suit, and has a pocket watch. An earlier catalogue record identifie…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a young couple sitting on a felled tree on land that is being cleared. There are upturned trees, stumps, etc. The woman is wearing a coat with leg-o-mutton sleeves and a flat brimmed hat, and the man is in three piece suit, and has a pocket watch. An earlier catalogue record identifies the couple as Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sprott, on the land that is being cleared for their home, "Mayfield." The lake in the background is identified as Burnaby Lake.

Subjects: Land Clearing; Plants - Trees

Names: Sprott, Louis "Edgar"; Sprott, Helen Louise Faith Nicholls

Geographic Access: Canada Way; Burnaby Lake

Accession Code: HV978.1.9

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-](date of original), copied 1978

Media Type: Photograph

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Morley-Buckingham Area

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-08-01

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sprott, [190-](date of original), copied 1978 thumbnail

Standing on tree stumps

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people standing on tree stumps in the woods. On one stump, a man in a three piece suit, with a hat and a pipe in his mouth is squatting, and on another stump, two women in overcoats and hats and a man wearing a vest is standing together. The squatting man on the stump resem…

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Repository: Burnaby Village Museum

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.2 x 25.2 cm print

Scope and Content: Photograph of a group of people standing on tree stumps in the woods. On one stump, a man in a three piece suit, with a hat and a pipe in his mouth is squatting, and on another stump, two women in overcoats and hats and a man wearing a vest is standing together. The squatting man on the stump resembles Arthur Rowe, the husband of Winnie Hill Rowe, and son-in-law of Bernard Hill.

Subjects: Plants - Trees

Accession Code: HV977.123.7

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Date: [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977

Media Type: Photograph

Scan Resolution: 600

Scan Date: 2023-07-18

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

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Standing on tree stumps, [190-?] (date of original), copied 1977 thumbnail

Timber near Deer Lake

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1905]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.3 x 9.4 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified man standing beside a tree, holding an axe.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: [1905]

Collection/Fonds: Peers Family and Hill Family fonds

Series: Kitty Hill Peers family photograph series

Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w ; 7.3 x 9.4 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 477-748

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: 2007-12

Scope and Content: Photograph of an unidentified man standing beside a tree, holding an axe.

Subjects: Land Clearing; Plants - Trees; Occupations - Lumberjacks

Media Type: Photograph

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph

Geographic Access: Deer Lake

Historic Neighbourhood: Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)

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Topping a tree near Central Park

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1904

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Description Level: Item

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 21 x 26.5 cm

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man "topping" a large tree in the area near Central Park and Boundary Road.

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Repository: City of Burnaby Archives

Date: 1904

Collection/Fonds: Burnaby Historical Society fonds

Series: Community Archives Collection series

Subseries: Norah Code subseries

Physical Description: 1 photograph : sepia toned ; 21 x 26.5 cm

Description Level: Item

Record No.: 345-001

Access Restriction: No restrictions

Reproduction Restriction: No known restrictions

Accession Number: BHS1997-05

Scope and Content: Photograph of a man "topping" a large tree in the area near Central Park and Boundary Road.

Subjects: Occupations - Lumberjacks; Plants - Trees; Land Clearing

Media Type: Photograph

Photographer: Code, Norah

Notes: Title based on contents of photograph; Photographs in this collection were taken and compiled by Norah Code, former editor of the "Burnaby Courier" newspaper during the course of her work for the newspaper. A note with the file indicates that the man in the tree may be Ms. Code's father but his name is not provided.

Geographic Access: Boundary Road; Central Park

Historic Neighbourhood: Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)

Planning Study Area: Maywood Area

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Claude Hill beside a large felled tree

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Edward W. Nicholson and Team of Horses Inside Tree Stump

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From Brookfield

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Johnson family at Stanley Park

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Leaf-covered walkway

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Linden Avenue

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MacKenzie family and friends

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Maude Hill standing by a tree

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Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sprott

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Standing on tree stumps

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